diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 9554235..b8183a6 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -119,6 +119,7 @@
 - Remove unused legacy flamegraph code path. ([#533](https://github.com/getsentry/vroom/pull/533))
 - Remove generic metrics ingestion ([#534](https://github.com/getsentry/vroom/pull/534))
 - Update sentry-go dependency to v0.29.1 ([#535](https://github.com/getsentry/vroom/pull/535))
+- Lower number of concurrent reads ([#537](https://github.com/getsentry/vroom/pull/537))
 
 ## 23.12.0
 
diff --git a/cmd/vroom/config.go b/cmd/vroom/config.go
index f6bb2a8..1ee75ba 100644
--- a/cmd/vroom/config.go
+++ b/cmd/vroom/config.go
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ type (
 	ServiceConfig struct {
 		Environment    string `env:"SENTRY_ENVIRONMENT" env-default:"development"`
 		Port           int    `env:"PORT"               env-default:"8085"`
-		WorkerPoolSize int    `env:"WORKER_POOL_SIZE"               env-default:"100"`
+		WorkerPoolSize int    `env:"WORKER_POOL_SIZE"               env-default:"25"`
 
 		SentryDSN string `env:"SENTRY_DSN"`